Poetry

Question 1

Who wrote charge of the light brigade and when

Answer 1

Alfred lord Tennyson

1854

Question 2

Who wrote exposure and when

Answer 2

Wilfred Owen

1917

Question 3

Who wrote bayonet charge and when

Answer 3

Ted Hughes

1957

Question 4

Who wrote remains and when

Answer 4

Simon armitage

2008

Question 5

Who wrote poppies and when

Answer 5

Jane weir

2009

Question 6

Who wrote war photographer and when

Answer 6

Carol Ann Duffy

1985

Question 7

What is the context of the charge of the light brigade

Answer 7

Based on the Crimean war, where miscommunication sent the light brigade into combat

Question 8

What is the context for exposure

Answer 8

Based on Owens first hand experiences in the trenches.
The winter of 1917 was particularly bitter
He describes the reality of war

Question 9

What is the context for beyonnet charge

Answer 9

A solid is shown as more of a weapon than man- lost humanity - Hughes is reflecting upon the deaths in ww1 where Hughes father was a veteran
Hughes poems often examine mans impact on nature

Question 10

What is the context for remains

Answer 10

A poem Based on real life soldiers experiences in Iraq and his post traumatic stress disorder. The first person narrative mimics the interview armitage conducted

Question 11

What is the context for poppies

Answer 11

The setting of the poem is ambiguous, as there are suggestions it’s modern conflict but also frequent links to past memory
Published in the guardian

Question 12

What is the context for war photographer

Answer 12

Photographs, in the past had to be carefully developed under a red light, the slowness of the developing photographs could link to the prolonged feeling of guilt the photographer gets from his Job

This is an interesting and unusual perspective of war from a job that is both sad and dangerous

Question 13

Name 2 devices used in charge of the light brigade and explain the effects

Answer 13

Repetition and anaphora emphasise the relentless forward motion of the soldiers and how they followed orders
Spoken in 3rd person therefore sounds like an official account

Question 14

Name 2 devices used in exposure and the effects of them

Answer 14

Para rhyme scheme of ABBAC, together with a jarring metre makes the poem sound uncomfortable like the prolonged physical and mental pain of the awaiting soldiers.
Repetition is used - but nothing happens- this reflects the nihilism the soldiers feel

Question 15

Name 2 devices used in bayonet charge and the effect of them

Answer 15

The verbs used give a sense of frantic movement and lack of control
Semantic fields of war and nature are juxtaposed, showing the impact of war on the land

Question 16

Name 2 devices used in remains and the effect of them

Answer 16

Enjambment reflects the continuing nature of memories after war

Question 17

Name 2 devices used in poppies and the effect of them

Answer 17

The form of the first Person dramatic monologue allows us to experience the inner emotions of the speaker
Ambiguity caused in the first stanza as we aren’t sure of the sons fate

Question 18

Name THREE devices used in war photographer and the effect of them

Answer 18

Religious imagery to describe the light and photographer underlines importance of the job even though sometimes is challenging
Congrats made between dystopian war land and utopian homeland
Regular and constant stanza length represent the discipline he must have for his job

Question 19

Give quotations from charge of the light brigade

Answer 19

Into the jaws of death/ into the mouth of hell
Honour the light brigade
Noble six hundred
Cannon to the left of them cannon to the right of them cannon in front of them
When can their glory fade

Question 20

Give quotations from exposure

Answer 20

But nothing happens 
Snow dazed/ snow dozed 
Merciless iced east winds that knife us 
Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence 
Our brains ache 
Poignant misery
Is it that we are dying

Question 21

Give quotations from war photographer

Answer 21

Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

Home again

All flesh is grass

He has a job to do

Half formed ghost

To do what someone must

Question 22

Give quotations from remains

Answer 22

Possibly armed possibly not

Well myself and somebody else and somebody else

Sort of inside out

End of story, except not really

His bloody life, in my bloody hands

Question 23

What does futility of war mean

Answer 23

Pointlessness of war

Question 24

What does medias res mean

Answer 24

Poem starts in the middle of the action eg- beyonet charge

Question 25

What is deviation

Answer 25

A change

Question 26

What is ambiguity

Answer 26

2 interpretations

Question 27

What is enjambment

Answer 27

No punctuation in a line and it carries through the the next one

Question 28

What is Volta

Answer 28

Turn of thought